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Attachment 36602
Could Republicans Cutting Welfare Lead To Political Uprising?

A caller suggests that welfare and social safety net programs act as a counter revolutionary concession to keep the population complicit. If this is true, what is going to happen when Republicans cut welfare? Could this lead to a political uprising that will replace corporate backed politicians with progressive democrats?

• ThomHartmann.com

[Jimaz]

Attachment 36609
The Aden Sisters On The Stock Market - Up? Or Down?
[[w/Guest Mary Anne & Pamela Aden)

With the Trump administration trade wars, deregulation and tax giveaways to the morbidly rich changing our economy, it can be a confusing time to invest in the stock market. Here to make sense of everything are The Aden Sisters.

How Should you be investing in this turbulent time?

• AdenForecast.com
• ThomHartmann.com

[Jimaz]

Attachment 36610
Why People Don't Vote and Why They Should
[[w/Guest Kyle Lierman)

Have you ever wondered why people don't vote or are you one of those people who doesn't vote? Thom Hartmann speaks to guest Kyle Lierman on the myriad reasons keeping people out of the voting boths and Kyle tells our audience why voting is important, together they discuss why we as progressives need to overcome these obstructions to voting.

• WhenWeAllVote.org
• ThomHartmann.com

[Jimaz]

Attachment 36611
Did Russian Hackers And Trolls Elect Donald Trump
[[Prof Kathleen Hall Jamieson)

Did the Russian hackers and trolls elect Donald Trump? Kathleen Hall Jamieson is here to present the case that Donald Trump could be an illegitimate president.

Cyberwar: How Russian Hackers and Trolls Helped Elect a President

• Annenberg Public Policy Center
• ThomHartmann.com

[Jimaz]

Attachment 36617
Senator Jeff Merkley Fights The Dishonorable Judge Brett Kavanaugh
[[w/Guest Jeff Merkley)

Senator and possible Democratic Presidential hopeful Jeff Merkley joins the Thom Hartmann Program to discuss his plan to stop Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination in the wake of sexual assault allegations, lying to the senate and more. Will Senator Jeff Merkely be able to stop a far right court from stripping Americans of rights?

• Merkley.Senate.gov
• ThomHartmann.com

[Jimaz]

Attachment 36618
Will Donald Trump Go After Iran?
[[w/Guest Sina Toossi)

Will Donald Trump go to war with Iran? His remarks at the United Nations make us think so. Here to discuss what will happen with Trump, Iran, the Iran peace deal and more is Sina Toossi from the National Iranian American Council [[NIAC)

• NIACouncil.org
• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 36619
Dr. Justin Frank Psychoanalyst Puts Trump on the Couch
[[w/Guest Dr. Justin Frank)

Dr. Justin Frank, pschoanalyst and author puts Donald Trump on Sigmund Freud's couch on the Thom Hartmann Program. What is the 45th President's major malfunction?

Trump on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President

• ObamaOnTheCouch.com
• ThomHartmann.com

[Jimaz]

Attachment 36620
How GOP Tokenized Women By Hiring Prosecutor Rachel Mitchell To Question Dr. Ford

In a move to avoid having an all male "boys club" question Dr.Ford about painful allegations that Donald Trump Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh attacked her, the GOP has hired a special prosecutor Rachel Mitchell to question Dr. Ford. Were the Republicans being sensitive or did they just tokenize women?

• ThomHartmann.com

[Jimaz]

Attachment 36628
Kavanaugh Screams At The Left & Democrats To Prove He Is Qualified, Bipartisan And Impartial

To defend himself from credible sexual assault allegations and prove to the Americans and the Senate that he is indeed a qualified, even tempered, bipartisan and impartial judge, Donald Trump Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh screams and threatens the left and Democrats in an opening statement that showed no sympathy for Dr. Ford. Will Brett Kavanaugh's performance earn him a spot on the highest court in the land or on right wing hate radio.

• Progressive Change Campaign Committee
• NARAL Action
• E-mails Show That Republican Senate Staff Stymied a Kavanaugh Accuser’s Effort to Give Testimony
• HOW DARE YOU DO THIS TO BRETT KAVANAUGH?
• Kavanaugh Has Become a Hero to the Incel Community
• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 36629
Into The Business Of Punishment In American Private Prisons
[[w/Guest Shane Bauer)

Regarding the business of private prisons, Shane Bauer joins the program today to discuss his time going undercover as a prison guard in America's private prisons, uncovering the corporations that make money off of human enslavement.

American Prison:
A Reporter's Undercover Journey Into The Business Of Punishment

• My four months as a private prison guard
• Mother Jones
• ThomHartmann.com

[Jimaz]

Attachment 36645
Is The Supreme Court Still Looking At The Constitution For Their Decisions?

A caller asks if the Supreme Court is still looking toward the Constitution in its decision making, provoking a history lesson from Thom Hartmann going back to the 1803 Supreme Court case of Marbury v. Madison, the first Supreme Court case to apply judicial review, through President Andrew Johnson shrinking the court to reverse decisions in the favor of the Southern planter class through numerous cases in the 20th century.

• Here Are 5 of Clarence Thomas’ Worst Decisions — And Proof Judge Brett Kavanaugh Is Cut from the Same Cloth
• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 36646
What Brett Kavanaugh's High School Year Book Slang Really Means

Did Brett Kavanaugh lie to the Senate and the American people and even to God when he said that "boofing" was about flatulence or that the "Devil's Triangle" was a drinking game? One woman calls the Thom Hartmann Program to let us know what Brett was really saying.

• ThomHartmann.com

[Jimaz]

Attachment 36647
Protections For Corporations In Heart Of Trump Free Trade

Does Donald Trump's "Fair Trade" plan protect corporations and the pharmaceutical industry over the people? Lori Wallach of Global Trade Watch and Public Citizen joins the Thom Hartmann program to say not only that Trump's plan does exactly that but that it is at the heart of Donald Trump's ill advised Trade policies including his changes to NAFTA.

• TradeWatch.org
• ThomHartmann.com

[Jimaz]

Attachment 36648
How America's White Supremacist Culture Keeps The Most Vulnerable On Edge

Starting a conversation on how vulnerable populations navigate a world that often seeks to make life harder or harm them, Thom Hartmann gets a call from a man who has to deal with both America's racism and American indifference to the blind and disabled communities.

• ThomHartmann.com

[Jimaz]

Attachment 36661
America: The Farewell Tour
[[w/Guest Chris Hedges)

Pulitzer-prize winning journalist, best-selling author & activist Chris Hedges joins the program to discuss his new book. Are the rise of white nationalists, the Trump presidency, increased police state, the erosion of democratic infrastructure, imperialist leanings and the widening gap between the morbidly rich and the working class, signs of America's farewell?

America: The Farewell Tour

• BlackAgendaReport.com
• CounterPunch.org
• AlterNet.org
• Truthdig.com
• World Socialist Web Site
• Chris Hedges on Truthdig
• Chris Hedges on Twitter
• ThomHartmann.com

[Jimaz]

Attachment 36666
Will Proof Brett Kavanaugh Committed Perjury Kick Him Off The Court?

As the Brett Kavanaugh farce continues, and Republicans keep trying to push the Donald Trump Supreme Court nominee through, would proof of Brett Kavanaugh committing perjury stand to knock him off the Supreme Court nomination and/or even disbar him? Thom Hartmann goes through a list of many, not all, of the perjury we have proof Brett Kavnaugh committed.

• All The Lies Brett Kavanaugh Told
• ThomHartmann.com

[Jimaz]

Attachment 36667
FCC Net Neutrality Ruling Clear Cuts Democratic Geography

The FCC ruling that cut down net neutrality is resulting in the clear cutting of our democratic geography, the internet being a place where people organized, and worked toward a better more progressive world. With the ruling affecting viewership of articles and websites from progressive backgrounds, how can we best fight the end of net neutrality?

The Absent Superpower: The Shale Revolution and a World Without America

• JimTerr.com
• jaimejaime on YouTube
• ThomHartmann.com

[Jimaz]

Attachment 36669
Are Republicans Willing To Lose The House & Senate For Control Of The Supreme Court?

Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh is causing controversy among even formerly pledged Republican supporters, and with Donald Trump's latest remarks attacking Dr. Ford, we have to ask, Are Republicans willing to give up control of the Senate and the House to control the Supreme Court?

• ThomHartmann.com

[Jimaz]

Attachment 36670
Will Lobbyists Create Another Deep Water Horizon Disaster Through Deregulation?

The Deep Water Horizon disaster resulted in huge environmental damage and some new regulations that the Trump administration is undoing by having lobbyists write new rules. Is another Deep Water Horizon coming?

• Trump Interior Department lifting rules to protect against another Deepwater Horizon
• Administration Easing Offshore Oil and Gas Drilling Rules
• ThomHartmann.com

[Jimaz]

Attachment 36671
Is There Anyone Left For Donald Trump To Con?

Over the course of his life as a businessman and as the President of the United States, Donald Trump has told more lies and conned more people than we can count. Donald Trump may be the greatest con man alive. New Evidence shows that he even conned his father. Is there anyone else for the President to lie to?

• The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Part I, Section III, [correction:]Chapter III
• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 36672
The Best Democracy We Can Sue For: Voter Purges vs Greg Palast

Activist, investigative journalist and filmmaker Greg Palast joins the Thom Hartmann Program discussing his lawsuits against voter purgers and how people in Georgia can find out if they were purged from the voter roll and what they can do about it. Will Palast be able to stop the Morbidly Rich and return progressives, people of color and women to the polls before the next election?

• GregPalast.com
• ThomHartmann.com

[Jimaz]

Attachment 36673
Can Progressives Undo Corporate Media Brainwashing By Educating Our Friends?

Can in-the-know progressives beat the media narrative by educating our friends? New research suggests that the most trusted news source is each other. Friends outrank corporate news sources.

• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 36674
Can You Trust Your News: The Money Behind The Media

Can you trust the media you're watching? Thom Hartmann shows how the news is taking advertisements from extreme far right organizations, working toward the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh as their latest crime in a long history of using big money to manipulate the governance of America.

• Judicial Crisis Network Background
• ConservativeTransparency.org
• Trump Tax Cut Unlocks Millions for a Republican Election Blitz
• GOP ads falsely depict Democrats as supporters of Sanders’s health plan
• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 36676
Will The GOP Tax Scam Crash The Economy
[[w/Guest Richard Wolff)

Professor Richard Wolff joins the program to discuss the possibility of the tax cuts pushed by the GOP crashing the economy. What will the GOP tax scam mean for our democracy?

• DemocracyAtWork.info
• RDWolff.com
• ThomHartmann.com

[Jimaz]

Attachment 36677
Exposing Republican Election Shenanigans
[[w/Guest Mimi Kennedy)

Professor Richard Wolff joins the program to discuss the possibility of the tax cuts pushed by the GOP crashing the economy. What will the GOP tax scam mean for our democracy?

• AUDIT USA
• PDAmerica.org
• ThomHartmann.com